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Web Page: http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/fegmaniax/ Archives are available at http://archive.uwp.edu/pub/music/lists/fegmaniax/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's Topics: ------- ------- Re: a new robyn CD Re: a new robyn CD Re: going without tapes Next window please Re: Uncorrected Robyn at the 12-bar, last Friday Re: Shirts mystery cassette dry spells (as opposed to wet spells) Re: a new robyn CD only the black crow knows Re: Mystery cassette Re: a new robyn CD tellafriend tapirs Re: Robyn at the 12-bar, last Friday Re: mystery cassette Re: Mystery cassette Rhino's "Tell Your Friends" Campaign RE: mystery cassette Bravo! ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 96 03:38:23 EST From: New Puritan <101356.2516@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: a new robyn CD The CD you're referring to (the one featuring 'statue with a walkman') was released as part of a package deal in early 1995, for sale at Virgin at L2.99 (and heavily promoted - many copies were given away free) as a promotional thing for the reisue programme. It was one of Sequel's bigger fiascoes - the low price not only meant Sequel had to subsidise Virgin for every copy sold, but that it was ineligible for any sort of chart. Virgin lost interest fairly quickly once it became obvious that the reissue programme was becoming the fiasco it became (none of them - ever 'You & Oblivion' - covered their production, promotion & distribution costs. Most Virgin Megastores now have a neat tidy pile of these CDs stacked somewhere at 99p each. Hope it helps... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:25:58 +0000 From: Jim Bower Subject: Re: a new robyn CD Most Virgin Megastores now have a neat tidy pile of these >CDs stacked somewhere at 99p each. > >Hope it helps... You bet it does...I only got a cd player recently and have seriously considered replacing my vinyl with all the re-issues, particularly since when I moved I forgot on one trip to shut the hatchback and my record turntable fell out onto the road and was crushed by a van. Its off to Virgin with me, mateys. Jim Bower ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:30:24 -0500 From: mikeb@usa1.com (Mike Breen) Subject: Re: going without >93 Respect >94 You & Oblivion >95 >96 Y&O came out last year, and don't forget about the Kershaw Sessions CD, though, so this should read: 93 Respect 94 Kershaw Sessions 95 You & Oblivion 96 ???? ---Mike (THIS SPACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION) The Other Days home page NOW FEATURING SOUND CLIPS!! http://www1.usa1.com/~mikeb/odays.html mikeb@usa1.com ------------------------------ From: SPIFFINGNY@aol.com Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:51:39 -0500 Subject: tapes Hello to all...Just a note to say I need some tapes and would anybody be up for a bit of trading? I have a fair sized list but of course, need more. Anybody? I'm also after a complete list of Soft Boys dates if anybody has knowledge of that. Thanks, Carl Arnheiter ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:24:38 -0600 (CST) From: VERMIN-IN-TRAINING Subject: Next window please So should be start making book on whether or not Syd is going to show up to the Hall of Fame ego-fest and personally thank Robyn for keeping his music alive? %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jay Lyall "All my friends do the model girl thing hist1a@jetson.uh.edu So I found me one University of Houston Now she wears my nose ring" --Lloyd Cole "Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip Yip" "There's liquor on my breath --Robyn Hitchcock And you on my mind" --Replacements %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 10:06:10 -0500 From: mikeb@usa1.com (Mike Breen) Subject: Re: Uncorrected >Which Egyptian is the one that keeps messing up in the live versions of >Uncorrected Personality Traits? I forget where, but it's always alogn >the line: >"re-con-cile-your-pa-rents-to-you-by-be-com-ing-both-at once" I have two boots where it's Robyn himself who screws up. One of the boots was from the "Perspex" tour (a show I was at) and Robyn said to Morris, "Was that your 'by?' I sang your 'by.'" ---Mike (THIS SPACE UNDER CONSTRUCTION) Check out the Other Days homepage at http://www1.usa1.com/~mikeb/odays.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 15:42:24 GMT From: jturner@rpms.ac.uk (Jonathan Turner) Subject: Robyn at the 12-bar, last Friday Belated taking the torch of on the spot action news reporting from Mark before passing it on to our next volunteer in this month's Robyn relay, here's a brief report on last Friday's (12-1-96) show. Robyn had a bad throat. Despite "drinking a jar of honey" (according to the club owner) before the show, Robyn was pretty croaky throughout. Fortunately for those of us in the front row (on cute little child-sized seats) he wasn't sneezing. Unfortunately, the stage was quite tall and Robyn taller still, so we all got stiff necks. And a bit dazzled by the mirror ball, and the lizard shirt featured on the back of the bargain give-away virgin sampler. Lots of inter-song banter from a cheery (despite his cold) Robyn, very little of which I can remember. Songs: Acoustic: Surgery Arms Of Love Serpent At The Gates of Wisdom The Devil's Radio Point It At Gran Trilobite Clean Steve (with a glance at Mark Ellen, up in the balcony) 52 Stations Cool Bug Rumble Electric: You And Oblivion Aquarium Trash (missed out the bit about scoring dope at the Hope, I think, but included bits about Peter Buck, Iggy Pop and MTV) Only The Stones Remain ("written for Joni Mitchell") encore: I Often Dream of Trains (electric; "they privatised the damn things overnight") Visions of Johanna (acoustic) I Got A Message For You (acoustic, no screaming, haven't enjoyed this one so much before, possibly due to the face pulling). I think I got everything, maybe someone can correct any errors. He changed into a black and white shirt for the encore. Took ages to do so - why doesn't he just wear two shirts, and tear off one after the main set ? It would be much more fun. Though I guess we'd get to see the labels then. Excellent support from Peter "Man at Cecil Gee" Blegvad. "Thanks to Robert, er, Robyn for asking me to play..." Jonathan. ------------------------------ From: Hedblade@aol.com Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:37:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Shirts With all of the talk of Robyn's shirts, I was curious about something. I gave Robyn a shirt on the Respect tour that was black with cream skulls all over it. Although it wasn't even close to being as nice as the ones he wears (rayon where as most of his appear to be silk), I was wondering if anyone has seen him wear it? Simply curious- I won't be crushed if it ended up in a pile of trash outside the venue. Robyn was very gracious when I presented it to him, took lots of time to talk to me, and said "Thank You" a bunch. Perhaps the "death" image was something he didn't want to fuel anymore than need be. Hedblade@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 08:38:16 -0800 (PST) From: griffith davies Subject: mystery cassette I found this while searching through the fegmaniax home page. It is about the Rhino re-issues of Robyn's older material. >The label also has a "tell a friend" campaign in the works. Fans >who write the label with the name of a potential Hitchcock fan >will receive a limited-edition lithograph of Hitchcock artwork, >and the "friend" will receive a Hitchcock cassette sampler. Does anyone know of this cassette? I've emailed Rhino several times, but have yet to receive a response. griffith ______________________________________________________________ Griffith Davies griffith.davies@csun.edu "Took a trip around the world, and never came back... -Forever Changed" Lou Reed & John Cale ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 11:28:53 CST From: Bram Tchaikovsky Subject: dry spells (as opposed to wet spells) Ahoy Maties! Yes, Y&O did come out last year, but it was all old material that you bootlegging types were no doubt familiar with long before the album came out in a legit version. Not that I am complaining, of course :). RH has so far been prolific enough to keep bootleggers in business for years; Bob Dylan is the only artist I can think of whose output is even comparable (and whose unreleased material is often just as worthy of an airing). That being said, I do think there is a bit of a dry spell on- would anyone really argue that the material on Respect is as good as on Y&O? With the exception of a couple tunes on that album (I'll leave you to decide which those might be), it just isn't very good. It's hard to believe that this is the same man who was responsible for Eye and I Often Dream of Trains. I'm extremely curious to hear this new album (aren't we all?), not just because each new Robyn album is a cause for joy (even bad RH is infinitely preferable to none) but because I think the quality of this album will say a lot about where the man's music is headed in the future. I hope to God he doesn't continue to fall back on that "wacky old Unca Bobby, he's a card" schtick, because among other things, it's really depressing. Ray Davies has been known to do the same sort of thing, as has Bryan Ferry, and it always makes me nuts to see a brilliant songwriter substitute schtick for substance. Susan P.S. All that aside, is there a tab for "Polly on the Shore" somewhere in the archives :)? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:32:46 -0500 (EST) From: freckle baby Subject: Re: a new robyn CD Does anyone know where I might find a Virgin megastore in NYC? Thanks! Beth ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 12:38:17 EST From: kenster@MIT.EDU (ostrander) Subject: only the black crow knows > QUESTION: Has Robyn ever gone this long without a new LP. I'm thinking of > the time proceeding Invisible Hitchcock - was that longer? by my reckoning, there have been THREE 'long waits'. it is a tie (since i'm not sure about the months, only the years) between: GROOVY DECAY (1982) and I OFTEN DREAM OF TRAINS (1984) ELEMENT OF LIGHT (1986) and GLOBE OF FROGS (1988) RESPECT (1993) and YOU & OBLIVION (1995) so, as you can see, there is no reason to fret. he practically has the new one (what's the title this week?) ready for mass production and consumption. perhaps someone else has more specific information so we will know which wait was actually the longest? ken p.s. what are the chances that we will see some major airplay with the beefy new record contract? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 12:44:32 -0600 From: tcain1@midwest.net (Timothy G Cain) Subject: Re: Mystery cassette >>>The label also has a "tell a friend" campaign in the works. Fans >who write the label with the name of a potential Hitchcock fan >will receive a limited-edition lithograph of Hitchcock artwork, >and the "friend" will receive a Hitchcock cassette sampler. Does anyone know of this cassette?<< Yup. You had to send in an insert from the re-issue CDs. I got both, using a friend's name and just reversing them on the two cards I sent in (he "told" me and I "told" him so we both got cassettes and lithographs). The lithograph was OK, on kind of cheap paper. The cassette was a sampler: Side 1: Acid Bird; Uncorrected Personality Traits; Heaven Side 2: If You Were a Priest; Airscape; Cynthia Mask It took about three months for me to get mine, about five months for my friend. --TC tcain1@midwest.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 11:02:00 -0800 From: Russ Reynolds Subject: Re: a new robyn CD ======== Original Message ======== Does anyone know where I might find a Virgin megastore in NYC? Thanks! Beth ======== Fwd by: Russ Reynolds ======== I can't answer that, but I can tell you that the Sequel CD can be ordered through any record store if it isn't already in stock. I had a li'l record store order one for me. I've also seen it at the local Tower store recently, and I know NYC has one of those. -russ. today playing: Telephone Free Landslide Victory/Camper Van Beethoven Test Trade Transmissions/Buzzcocks Respect/Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness/Smashing Pumpkins ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 15:51:32 CST From: komalley@howpubs.com (Kathleen OMalley) Subject: tellafriend So, I shouldn't feel cheated? I did not receive the lithograph, just the cassette sampler... ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 96 17:40:02 EST From: Benjamin.M.Brainard@Dartmouth.EDU (Benjamin M. Brainard) Subject: tapirs Susan at sdodge@midway.uchicago.edu says... >P.S. Decided to go with "se tapir".......Now you can all sleep at night :) not only can i sleep at night, but i can now go to sleep with the delightful image of the tapir in my mind. in my opinion, the tapir is one of the best animals ever. and robyn should geet a shirt with tapirs on it. yeah yeah. tapirs. any other fans out there? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 15:10:26 -0800 Subject: Re: Robyn at the 12-bar, last Friday From: Tom Clark "fegManiax" Jonathan was nice enough to inform us of the performance including: >Point It At Gran Wow, talk about pulling one out of the archives! -tc ************************************* * Tom Clark * Apple Computer, Inc. "Knowledge Is Good" * tclark@apple.com -Emil Faber * tclark@netgate.net * tclark@eworld.com * http://www.netgate.net/~tclark ************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:09:08 -0500 From: 32 flavors and then some Subject: Re: mystery cassette komalley@howpubs.com (Kathleen OMalley) sez: >So, I shouldn't feel cheated? I did not receive the lithograph, just the >cassette sampler... i pulled the same trick as tim cain did to get both the cassette and the lithograph and ended up getting two copies of the cassette instead. so i assume that rhino sent out cassettes after running out of lithos. which reminds me: i'd be happy to sell or trade my extra copy. it's still sealed. make an offer - i'd prefer a trade of some sort to just selling it, but i might as well get it to someone who needs it more than me. Benjamin.M.Brainard@Dartmouth.EDU (Benjamin M. Brainard) sez: >in my opinion, the tapir is one of the best animals ever. alt.fan.tapir? hmmm... woj ------------------------------ Date: 16 Jan 1996 12:22:48 -0800 From: "Mark Gloster" Subject: Re: Mystery cassette >The lithograph was OK, on kind of cheap paper. The cassette was a sampler: >Side 1: Acid Bird; Uncorrected Personality Traits; Heaven >Side 2: If You Were a Priest; Airscape; Cynthia Mask There was a deadline attached to this as well, and I believe it was April 1, 1995. I was somewhat unimpressed by the "lithograph", my friends who received tapes were extremely happy with them and knew exactly who turned them in. Yes, it took me several hundred thousand years to receive my litho (more like a mimeograph). feggadiddly yours, -Mg ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:08:13 -0600 From: jh3@cencom.net (JH3) Subject: Rhino's "Tell Your Friends" Campaign >The label also has a "tell a friend" campaign in the works. Fans >who write the label with the name of a potential Hitchcock fan >will receive a limited-edition lithograph of Hitchcock artwork, >and the "friend" will receive a Hitchcock cassette sampler. >Does anyone know of this cassette? If you bought one of the first pressings of Y&O or some of the other reissues, you would have gotten a form to send in with the names and addresses of two of your friends; the friends would get sampler cassettes (6 songs, no non-LP stuff; I can get you a track listing but I'm sure someone else on the list can do it faster than I can) and you yourself would have gotten a "limited-edition lithograph" of one of Robyn's original artworks. Perhaps I was too late, but all I got was a xerox, though the paper was fairly nice. If my scanner worked I would scan it and e-mail it to you, but it's not working, and frankly I don't think it's up there with Robyn's best work. (It purports to be an illustration from "The Professor", a story originally excerpted on the back of the "Eaten By Her Own Dinner" 12" and fully printed on the insert that came with Y&O.) Basically it's a two-panel drawing of a pin-headed gent with sunglasses blowing up a giant inflatable chicken to sit on. Maybe Rhino isn't responding because Robyn is on Warner Brothers now...? -John H. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Jan 96 04:07:06 UT From: "Kenneth Johnson" Subject: RE: mystery cassette I think the Lithos were lame.. and prolific Hitchcock fan needed those sampler tapes... I sent the tapes to friends (hooked one of 'em actually) and received the litho no prob.. .02$ sent cheers , Kenneth ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:42:24 -0900 (AKST) From: Brett Cooper Subject: Bravo! Just watched "Brenda Of The Lightbulb Eyes", which includes the Robyn videos that i have not see since 1989, "Madonna Of The Wasps", "One Long Pair Of Eyes", and "The Prisoner"-related "Balloon Man". I have two questions: Who is the old man and kid in "Madonna..." and "One Long..."? And the video version of "Madonna..." is different from the version on "Queen Elvis". The video version is far superior. Is this available on any release. Possibly the version on "The Kershaw Sessions"? Be seeing you- Brett (Cooper) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The End of this Fegmaniax Digest.